04874nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-46553-6 DE-He213 20251030111727.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240319s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031465536 978-3-031-46553-6 10.1007/978-3-031-46553-6 doi BL65.P7 HRAM2 bicssc REL084000 bisacsh QRAM2 thema Who Gives to Whom? Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary [electronic resource] / edited by Cilas Kemedjio, Cecelia Lynch. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 257 p. 8 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture and Religion in International Relations, 2945-784X Chapter 1: Reading Humanitarianism Critically -- Chapter 2. The Humanitarian Misunderstanding in the Postcolonial Humanitarian African Imagination -- Chapter 3. Extractive Salvation: Zoe’s Ark and the Ethic of Humanitarianism in Africa -- Chapter 4: Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa” -- Chapter 5. Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, and Military Humanitarianism in the Northern Uganda Conflict -- Chapter 6: Engendering Care Revisited: Decolonizing Global Health and Dismantling Gender Stereotypes in HIV Care in Africa -- Chapter 7: How West African Women “Save” the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda -- Chapter 8: ‘Trust no one’: The logics of microfinance, depending on whom you ask -- Chapter 9. Toxic Scavenging in the Digital Divide -- Chapter 10. COVID-19 and the African Disaster that Wasn’t -- Chapter 11: Taking, Giving, Repairing and Reversing -- Chapter 12. The Last Word: Funtumfunafu, Denkyemfunafu: The Individual, the Community Reciprocity and Grace. In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse. Humanitarian assumptions are challenged by unpacking critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to today’s global networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Who Gives to Whom: Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary is a decolonial gesture that builds onNgūgī’s work as well as that of pan-Africanist and intersectional feminist scholars. Contributions range from assessing the impact of historical legacies of colonialism on gender, religious/secular attempts at “saving” Africans to (South) African unrealized project to reconfigure foreign policy frameworks shaped by apartheid. Case studies of “silver bullet” solutions focus on the incorporation of women in peacebuilding, microfinance, and e-waste disposal, to argue that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being while shortchanging intersectional African forms of agency. Cilas Kemedjio is Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean literary and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, USA. Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Religion and politics. 69772 Africa Politics and government. 67669 Economic development. 58075 Human rights. 58427 Sex. 66477 Politics and Religion. 69773 African Politics. 67671 Development Studies. 67851 Politics and Human Rights. 67284 Gender Studies. 66478 Kemedjio, Cilas. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 73295 Lynch, Cecelia. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 73296 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031465529 Printed edition: 9783031465543 Printed edition: 9783031465550 Culture and Religion in International Relations, 2945-784X 73297 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46553-6 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 58429 58429